Sample sentences for INCONCEIVABLE

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Definition

totally unlikely

"Unthinkable! Inconceivable! Absurd! He could never be made into marshmallows!"
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

inconceivable = so totally unlikely it is hard to imagine it could be so

We endured hard times with hopes and dreams of doing the inconceivable.
Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
A decade ago, the idea of an organic garden at the White House would have seemed inconceivable.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
This substance has inconceivable properties and can be created only by a mind that is highly tuned to a deeply focused state.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
The white, narrow road flashed out of the foreground, slipped with inconceivable rapidity under the car.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
The idea was inconceivable to her.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
How inconceivably strange and beautiful it was for Venters to see Bess clasped to Jane Withersteen's breast!
Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
The happiness before him appeared so inconceivable that if only he could attain it, it would be the end of all things.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Max and YaYa were thrown back with inconceivable force.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
I found it quite inconceivable at this point to enter into the mind of the murderer.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
He remembered that monstrous eye in its buried vault-but no, that was inconceivable.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
To me it was inconceivable.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
My mind, with inconceivable rapidity followed out all the consequences of such a death.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
It was inconceivable that he should have hurt a woman.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
It is inconceivable that any great store of Eldunari might be lying hidden somewhere, ready to help us if we could but locate them.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
Sophia, confused as she was, answered this bombast (and very properly I think) with a look of inconceivable disdain.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
Everything was so clear before him, all he had aimed at so long within reach at last, and now his inconceivable stupidity had erected this new obstacle.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
One by one, Ronnie watched them crawling past, thinking them so incredibly small that survival seemed almost inconceivable.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
The utterly inconceivable lost its massive inconceivableness.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
Think of the inconceivable bad taste, in the circumstances, of that fellow making free with the house—or coming there at all!
Henry James -- Washington Square

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